A gesture to recognize the New Jersey Transit workers, police, ferry boat operators, bus divers, train operators, and others who assisted victims to safety in the hours and days after the attacks on September 11, NJ transit officials unveiled a plaque in their honor this afternoon at the Hoboken Terminal in Hoboken.

The dedication ceremony, which took place following NJ Transit's regularly scheduled board of director's meeting, included words from Hoboken Fire Chief Richard Blohm, and Jersey City mayor Jerramiah T. Healy, among other NJ Transit officials.

"We're sensitive to the real efforts the men and woman of New Jersey Transit did in helping," James Weinstein, executive director of New Jersey Transit, said. "That deserves recognition and that's what this is all about."

The New Jersey Transit Police Department Pipe Band lead the march from the terminal’s waiting room, with New Jersey Transit board members, Hoboken officials, and spectators in tow, toward the waterfront, and facing lower Manhattan.

Clad in a baseball cap, bearing the New Jersey Transit police patch, Mayor Healy gave his remarks, recalling for the crowd that both Jersey City and Hoboken were the "first point of refuge" for victims fleeing lower Manhattan during the attacks on September 11th.

Hoboken fire chief Blohm, who attended the dedication on behalf of Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer, told the crowd that he remembered, firsthand, seeing the efforts of the people the plaque was dedicating, while he worked that day, as part of the decontamination efforts taking place on more than 8,000 people coming into Hoboken, covered in yellow and grey dust. "What I saw was a lot of bravery and determination on their parts," he told the crowd. "We worked together to get through that terrible, terrible day."